Fayulu a former ExxonMobil executive is backed by former Katangan governor Moïse Katumbi former Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba and ex-foreign minister Mbusa Nyamwisi the latter two of whom are also notorious former rebel leaders...

All seemed well on 12 November when seven leaders gathered in Geneva including heavyweights Jean-Pierre Bemba and Moise Katumbi who have been barred from pursuing their own presidential aspirations and announced they had united behind Martin Fayulu a courageous political fighter who was nearly killed by the police two years ago (AC Vol 59 No 23 Militias flex their muscles)...

Kasaï Central vice-governor Kabuanga Kabuanga Manix used to belong to Jean-Pierre Bemba's Mouvement de Libération du Congo (MLC) but these days heads his own party the Congrès des Alliés Pour l'Action au Congo (CAAC) which is part of the ruling Presidential Majority coalition...

Jean-Pierre Bemba former Vice-President and leader of the 1998-2003 rebellion by the Mouvement pour la Libération du Congo (MLC) flew into Kinshasa on 1 August after his acquittal at the International Criminal Court and 10 years in a Dutch prison...

The Rassemblement a large coalition dominated by the Union pour la démocratie et le progrès social (UDPS) Congo's oldest opposition party and the G-7 alliance which supports the presidential aspirations of the exiled former Governor of Katanga Moïse Katumbi published a statement on 7 November identical to those issued by the Union pour la nation congolaise (UNC) led by Vital Kamerhe and the Mouvement de libération du Congo (MLC) of Jean-Pierre Bemba...